Sectors · Hospitality
Earned-wage access for hospitality teams
Kitchen, floor and event staff work the shift now and wait weeks for the pay. Wagecrew lets them draw the pay they have already earned before payday, up to a cap you set, layered on the rota and payroll you already run.
The problem
Hospitality runs on people who feel every gap to payday
Turnover is high, shifts are hard to cover, and a lot of your team live close to the edge between pay runs. The pay gap is one of the few pressures you can actually take off the table.
Turnover you keep paying for
Every leaver is another advert, another trial shift and another induction. When someone leaves over money, the cost of replacing them lands on you and on the team who stay.
Shifts that go unfilled
A Friday service short two on the floor gets covered by agency cover at a premium, or not at all. Filling it from your own team depends on people wanting the hours.
A long wait for weekly-paid crew
Casual and event staff who worked last week can still be days or weeks from the money. That gap is a pressure your team raises, and one you can act on.
How Wagecrew fits
Built for the way hospitality actually pays people
It reads the hours you already record and sits behind the payroll you already run. Nothing about your pay process changes.
No payroll migration
Wagecrew layers on your existing rota and payroll. You keep your bureau, your pay dates and one reconciliation. Read how it works.
Built to sit on the rota you already run
Hours flow in from your rota source. Wagecrew connects to Ubeya, and supports FreshPay, Xero and BACS. See the integrations.
A cap you control
Set the cap as a percentage of earned wages, the minimum draw, the allowed withdrawals per period and the pay-period shape. Draws stay within approved hours.
One reconciliation at payroll
The Payroll Verifier checks every draw against the actual payroll before the run, and a single deduction file nets the total against the next payslip. Recovery is just the amount drawn - nothing added.
The worker's view
What it looks like for your team
A team member opens the app between shifts, sees what they have earned so far this period, and requests a draw from the minimum you set up to your cap. The money is paid by Faster Payments - typically within seconds - to their own bank account.
- Free for the worker to use. You fund it.
- No credit check and no credit-score impact for this model.
- Passwordless sign-in by magic link, and every draw is a manual request.
The field
Built for hospitality, not adapted to it
Much of the field is built for enterprise headcounts and bolted onto a wellbeing suite. Wagecrew works for any UK employer, and hospitality is one of its strongest fits.
Across the field, many providers charge the worker a per-draw fee to reach money they have already earned. Wagecrew is built for the way hospitality rosters and pays people, with the cap in your hands, not a third party's.
Trust
Live in production, not a pitch deck
How it runs
Wagecrew moves real wages, so it is engineered and run like a payments product. Every draw is checked against live payroll before money moves, payment is paid by Faster Payments - typically within seconds - and the whole period nets into one deduction file at your pay run. Read how we approach security.
FAQ
Earned-wage access for hospitality, answered
Does earned-wage access work for weekly-paid and casual hospitality staff?
Do we have to change our rota or payroll system?
Is this a loan or an advance on unearned pay?
What does it cost hospitality workers to use?
How much can a worker draw, and how fast?
Request a demo
Give your hospitality team their earned pay before payday
See the worker app, the controls you set and the payroll deduction file in one short call.